Order of Australia Awards issued since 1975, and has the following levels:
More information about the Order of Australia can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Australia.
Awards are issued with the following distinctions:
People can receive multiple Order of Australia honours in their lifetime. People can have their awards terminated, or return or refused their awards. Some awards are recorded as anonymous.
There are two main sources for the data:
The Australian Honours list that is sourced from the office of PM and Cabinet
Wikipedia articles linked to Order of Australia recipients and their creation date
This data set consists of 41816 records, where each record is an Order of Australia honour associated with an individual.
The data set is sourced from the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In adddition to this data set there has been a clumn added for gender. At this stage a recipeients gender is limited to Male v Female, although we are aware that there have been trasgender recipeints of the award. Please see detail below on how this variable was constructued, and other relevant information
(ADD IN SECTION BELOW ON HOW ALEX CREATED THIS VARIABLE, PLUS HIS NOTES ON TRANSGENDER RECIPIENTS AND HOW THEY HAVE BEEN RECORDED)
The following characteristics of the data set need to be taken into consideration in analysis.
Anonymous Awards
Multiple Awards
Of the 41816 records, there are a small number of records 220 records associated with the same person.
Terminated awards
Type of awards (honourary etc)
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